Action Philosophers

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Author: Fred Van Lente

ISBN-10: 0977832937

ISBN-13: 9780977832934

Category: Alternative Comics

Imagine Plato as a wrestling superstar of ancient Greece, Nietzsche as the original ubermensch, and Bohidharma as the grand master of kung fu. These are not just great thinkers they also make great comics. Action Philosophers details the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust in hip and humorous comic book fashion. All nine issues of the award-winning, best-selling comic book series have been collected into a single volume, making this a comprehensive cartoon history of ideas from...

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Imagine Plato as a wrestling superstar of ancient Greece, Nietzsche as the original ubermensch, and Bohidharma as the grand master of kung fu. These are not just great thinkers they also make great comics. Action Philosophers details the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust in hip and humorous comic book fashion. All nine issues of the award-winning, best-selling comic book series have been collected into a single volume, making this a comprehensive cartoon history of ideas from pre-Socratics to Jacques Derrida, including four new stories. ""You'll never have more fun getting the real scoop on the big ideas that have made the world the mess we live in today!"" — Tom Morris (Author of Philosophy for Dummies, If Aristotle Ran General Motors, and If Harry Potter Ran General Electric).The New York Times - Douglas WolkThe premise…isn't particularly novel: brief vitae of philosophical greats from the pre-Socratics to the poststructuralists, with explanations of their ideas. The achievement of the writer Fred Van Lente and the artist Ryan Dunlavey, though, is visualizing them in intensely goofy but intellectually rigorous ways.

\ Douglas WolkThe premise…isn't particularly novel: brief vitae of philosophical greats from the pre-Socratics to the poststructuralists, with explanations of their ideas. The achievement of the writer Fred Van Lente and the artist Ryan Dunlavey, though, is visualizing them in intensely goofy but intellectually rigorous ways.\ —The New York Times\ \